Tom Shankland’s debut is a serial killer movie with intellectual knobs on, a thought-provoking variation on themes explored in ‘Se7en’ and ‘Saw’. A group of friends on their way to a college football game falls prey to a pair of murderous brothers in an abandoned small town. W Delta Z - Waz - wΔz, lacks originallity and intrigue with actors phoning in their performances probably because of the shoddy writing that lacks any punches.…. Grizzled cop Stellan Skarsgård and his rookie partner (Melissa George) find the body of a pregnant woman next to that of a drug dealer. Some are mutilated while others have the Price equation (wΔz = Cov (w,z) = βwzVz) carved into their flesh. Report this film. Film, Thrillers. I had assumed this was simple financial cynicism, but now I think it's more retarded than that. Waz’s ideas are repellent but approached in a similarly elliptical manner to David Fincher’s Se7en – a film to which it clearly owes a huge debt in terms of style and theme. It's a poor sample and an even poorer film, but it has been interesting to see the progression through the years of noir filmmaking. Well worth a read.…, EXTREME, SHOCKING & DISGUSTING MOVIES / DISTURBING DRAMAS / WEIRD, TRASH & UNCATEGORIZED / ANIMAZIONE ESTREMA / SCI FI ESTREMO & BEAST MOVIES…, I haven't watched any of these yet so apologies if any of them are actually good, profondo_rosso 3,324 films 441 18 Edit, UPDATE! Belfast passes for New York well enough among all these shadows, but the hard-boiled perpetual-rain motif has already been plundered from Blade Runner by Se7en, and adds nothing novel to the mix. Was justice served or not? This review may contain spoilers. STOP PRETENDING TO BE AMERICAN! But I'm biased because I like this sort of thing. In 1989, an all-women crew stepped into a restored yacht and raced it across several oceans, competing against dozens of other yachts that were piloted and crewed by men. It just kinda happens, but Selma Blair also happens, so It's a success anyway. All rights reserved. Waz is a film directed by Tom Shankland with Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters, .... Year: 2007. Six friends are on their way to a football game. I guess that the number 3300 is the maximum for a letterboxd list. Directed by Tom Shankland. Still some survive and fight back. Trashy thriller starring Stellan Skarsgard and Melissa George as two cops on the trail of a killer who carves a weird algebraic formula into each new victim. © Letterboxd Limited. Selma Blair can do anything, she really has done it all. Waz es una película dirigida por Tom Shankland con Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters, John Sharian .... Año: 2007. After the fan belt of Wade's car breaks he decides, not really a fan anyway, to stay behind with his girl while the others drove on. Quite interesting idea here which made me think about Se7en, a movie I really love, but badly executed in many ways. Carly and Wade decide to go to the nearest town to get a new fan belt while the rest of the group attempts to go to the game. George Orwell closed Nineteen-Eighty-Four with a blasted and chilling indictment of the fragility of human love, as Winston Smith cried ‘Do it to Julia! The title is meant to be 'W Delta (∆) Zed' (or "Zee"), but everyone is calling it "WAZ", which is, of course, hugely amusing for all the wrong reasons. The torture scenes, however, are physically and emotionally distressing, so the victim’s screams sometimes drown out these quieter meditations. Leary George soon realises that Skarsgård is implicated in the botched handling of the crime, and knows more about the killer than he may be letting on…. I can handle the truth. waiting for him, they wonder into the town's only attraction, a nevertheless empty wax figures museum. To know when people like your submissions, answer your questions, reply to you, etc., please. Elly Carpenter: You wanna blowjob? Looking for something to watch? Esta lista ha sido generada automáticamente con…. Waz, Composer: Cougar Town. Not exactly sure what point is proved by the ‘villain’ here in forcing those desperate choices. Skarsgård and George quickly realise a second factor in the killings – that all the victims were involved in an unspeakable crime that took place on their own precinct. And created an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors. There are lots of tricks, or plot devices, that screenwriters use to transmit important facts to the viewer. Suggestion: Use www.random.org to draw which ones to…, All the films mentioned by name in Kim Newman's definitive encyclopedia of horror films, Nightmare Movies. Probably its biggest crime is the fact that it assembles a very decent cast and has most of them miscast or given almost nothing of any note to do. Not a real recommendation, not even for the serial-killer-movie fans, but not terrible either. The popularity of extreme graphic cases can be seen as the influence of Se7en to the mainstream limit of Saw with both being heavily influential in their genres and the poor characterization focusing on the crime being the influence of the unstoppable TV behemonth that is CSI. Now I strongly suspect that after "Rushmore" Max Fischer moved to London and took charge of a local youth acting club. Fortunately by then I’d become slightly interested in what was going on, but I very nearly didn’t bother. (also if you don’t think jean learner deserves to do whatever she wants to whoever she wants then literally don’t even fucking talk to me). Here we have Bootstrap Bill, Angel Parrish, Dennis Pennis, Hellboy's girlfriend, Asher B and Bane in a Seven or Saw style torture revenge thrillride. Scriptwriter Clive Bradley’s focus is not on the killer’s grim modus operandi, but on his twisted moral dilemma – the power of love to over-determine our instinct for self-preservation. However, her faithlessness in human nature also mirrors that of the jaded viewers of recent torture-fests, and it is she who needs the regenerative power of the film’s conclusion as much as we do. When will they ever learn? Whenever I add some new movie…, Peliculas y Cortometrajes proyectados en todas las ediciones del Festival de Cine de Sitges (actualmente conocido también como Festival Internacional…, (Casi) todas las películas disponibles en Amazon Prime Video España. It’s easy to imagine that we would jump in front of a flying bullet for those we most love – but could we endure protracted torture to save the one most precious to us? Remembering the plot of a film--but not the title--can be frustrating. The performances are intense and Morton Søborg’s gritty, atmospheric cinematography recalls ’70s crime movies such as ‘The French Connection’. The next day the friends find that they're having car troubles, so two of the friends accept a stranger's ride into a small town named Ambrose. There is something horribly wrong with the bodies found in the dark city streets. WAZ's latest EP "Lights Go Down" was released on August 26, 2014. NYPD Blue/Se7en/Saw have a lot to answer for. Contact me | Privacy policy | Join the mailing list | Links. Exclusive: Listen to Waz-jackson’s genre-bending score for YouTube Red’s newest series Youth & Consequences, TVLine Mixtape: Your Favorite Songs From The Vampire Diaries, Cougar Town, New Girl and More, The Backstreet Boys Walk Into a Bar: Part II, The Backstreet Boys Walk Into a Bar: Part I, What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. Prime Video has your Halloween movie picks covered. Título original: Waz. Monday February 18 2008. Scriptwriter C ... WAZ. All rights reserved. Try another. Perfect for Halloween - Great Horror Movie Mistakes & Trivia on Kindle... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl mistake picture, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory. What typically speaks for the 00s is extremism and a focus around the crime at stake, over the characters involved. As the pairs of bodies pile up, Paul Kaye’s crazed scientist pops up to explain this, but his dialogue is incomprehensible or inaudible, or both. Features; Top 25; Latest Reviews. Original title: Waz. Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback. oh my god its tom hardy". On the technical side, the film is as dark in tone visually as thematically, and its poor sound-mix is particularly unfortunate in light of the significant amount of exposition consigned to dialogue. Maiden. Film data from TMDb. Now the group must find a way out before they too become permanent exhibits in the House of Wax... A group of friends (Carly Jones, Nick Jones, Paige Edwards, Wade, Dalton Chapman, and Blake) are on their way to an important football game, while along the way, they decide to camp in some woods. Waz’s ideas are repellent but approached in a similarly elliptical manner to David Fincher’s Se7en – a film to which it clearly owes a huge debt in terms of style and theme. The next day Wade's car experiences car troubles with a broken fan belt. Waz is a film directed by Tom Shankland with Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters, .... Year: 2007. Interesante historia, mala direccion, peores actuaciones. You're not fooling anyone, you know. His new partner is Detective Helen Westcott (Melissa George), who, frankly, doesn't seem cut out for this police work lark, given the fact that she can barely question a thug without her hand shaking. A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes. This is a 2007 film so some of the cast you’d spot are only just making it in to film so from this film you can see why they made it big. Playing shows night after night on the road, Waz was moved by the raw and emotional connection people have with music....It was this connection that inspired him to start writing his own songs and composing to picture. Waz, Pete Yorn's original guitarist, grew up in Cleveland, OH. Teenage friends Nick Jones, Wade, Dalton Chapman, Blake, Carly Jones and Paige Edwards must camp in a godforsaken part of Louisiana on their way to a college football game and get a good scare finding a pile of deer meat and one human arm- fake. Do not despair or give up your search, however. If you’re wondering what an actor of the magnitude and burning screen-presence of Stellan Skarsgård is doing in ‘another’ torture flick, you have your first clue: he’s giving one of the strongest and most emotionally-powerful performances of a distinguished career, and…it’s not a torture flick in the sense of Hostel or Saw, but rather a treatise on the consumptive nature of evil and the redemptive power of love, couched in the commercial trappings of the moment. Emotionally frozen detective Eddie Argo (Stellan Skarsgård) breaks in his idealistic new partner (Melissa George) on a grisly and unfathomable series of murders where the victims come in pairs: one savagely electrocuted with the word Waz carved into their flesh, the other – always a loved one of the first victim – horrendously tortured either to death or irredeemable stupefaction. Not to me!’, under pressure of unbearable torture in Room 101. This was good. Hard-core goreheads will feel slighted at the cerebral themes under examination, whilst those who would most appreciate Waz’s humanity may continue to be repulsed by its implicit association with the likes of Hostel II, the Saw films and lesser entries such as Captivity. —Daniel Jos. Found Footage films often casue feelings of nausea or headaches from the jolty images onscreen - here the same problems are evident and I had to switch off after 40 mins for a break. Before long it becomes clear that the perpetrator has suffered a similar fate and is now coping by seeking a way to solve this philosophical dilemma. Every Horror Film Made from 1895 - present, Pride: A Chronological History of Queer Interest & LGBTQ+ Cinema, Disturbing, Controversial, Shocking, Bizarre and Messed Up Films, The Chronological History of the Cinematic Macabre, All the films mentioned in Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies, Amazon Prime Video España – Todas las películas disponibles.

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